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What the Jewish Rabbi would do for the torah of Moses in the movie, the follower of Jesus must be prepared to do in real life - if it comes to it - for the torah of Messiah. The apostles did. The earliest followers of Jesus did. With God’s help, I will do. Note that what the chief called...

Crusades began with returning violence for violence; with treating the enemy not as you would have the enemy treat you, but rather, treating the enemy the way that the enemy treats you. The teaching of Jesus abandoned when evil brushes the teaching aside. The followers of Jesus must not become...

“I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.” (Psalm 120:7) The worst they can do is persecute, torture and kill me. The least and best I can do is remain faithful to the teaching and example of Jesus and the apostles; no matter what others think about me, say about me, or do to me...

A significant part of my ministry is speaking with “Islamic sympathizers and Christian haters” about the Messiah’s gospel of peace. That’s evangelism, and the point of it is to make disciples for him from the ranks of his enemies.

It made me wholly unreceptive to their evangelism; but I can work with it, use it to my advantage, to evangelize the Muslim evangelizers.

We followers of Jesus do not use the weapons of the world. We use the full armor of God. That’s how we put up a fight. That’s how we take on Muhammad / Islam.

“The way to beat Caesar is to beat him at his own game.” That’s the way of unbelieving Jews and pagans. That’s not the way of Jesus and the apostles. “The way to beat Muhammad is to beat him at his own game.” No it isn’t. Only a change of heart beats Muhammad, and that’s what teaching...

He didn’t understand why Jesus told them to get swords. He did after Jesus rebuked him. How do we know this is true? Simple. We read what Peter says about how to treat our enemies. Where in the New Testament are Jesus and the apostles found killing their enemies? Nowhere. That would be failure...

Muslims believe the Bible instructs Christian to kill our enemies. I don’t. The Christian woman in this video responding (poorly, but rightly) to a Muslim evangelist doesn’t. The Christian theologians in the video don’t. I don’t. Given the violent history of Christianity from the 4th century to...

What would it take for you not to follow the way of Jesus and the apostles? If someone threatens to kill you if you don’t, would that do the trick? ”You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” Test the spirit. That’s not the spirit of Jesus. That’s the spirit of the devil.

My only point is that Jesus and the apostles didn’t teach followers of Jesus to kill their enemies. He and they explicitly taught us how to respond to our enemies at all times. They modeled it for us. Christianity has been guilty at times of doing that. That’s fine. What kind of fight did...

Is that what C.H. Spurgeon expected? If you don’t know, ask @Wrangler. He knows what Spurgeon expected. He also knows it’s the same thing that I expect. Do you know @rockytopva?

You’re speaking about the government. See Romans 13. That’s the role of the government, not the church.

That’s not what I expect. No. I teach, preach, and practice the Messiah’s way. The threat of violence - be it from Islam or any other religion - will not cause me to teach, preach and practice any other way.

This has been addressed thoroughly, by myself and others, in the thread which @Wrangler encouraged you to read. ”We do not use the weapons of the world.” - Jesus, via Paul When did Jesus and the apostles use the weapons of the world to kill their enemies? It’s a rhetorical question. They...

That’s false. Please do.

No. What does Jesus expect his followers to do when they are being persecuted? Doesn’t Jesus himself tell us and show us? Don’t the apostles? ”We do not use the weapons of the world.” - Paul

Be Messiah in you to Muhammad in them. That’s the remedy.

He didn’t. That wasn’t his purpose. This is how Christianity began.

Even by Christians. The pattern has to be broken. The way of Jesus and the apostles is the way to break it.